“As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.”

“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”

“If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.”

“For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.”

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”

“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.”

“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.”